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Associating a spice netlist to a symbol

sidz

Hii,


I am new to cadence. I have made a layout for an inverter in Cadence Virtuoso 6.1.5-64b  and verified DRC LVS and PEX using calibre. I am having spice netlist of the extracted inverter layout. How do I associate this netlist to a symbol for further post layout simulation?

Thank you in advance.

  • Calibre (a Mentor tool) should be able to produce an "extracted view" as an alternative to a SPICE netlist when doing extraction. If you do it this way, it will make it much simpler to switch to that view - you either change the order of the view names in Setup->Environment in ADE (assuming  you're using ADE) or you create a config view using the  hierarchy editor where you pick the view to use for the cell you've extracted to be the name of the extracted view you've created - and then you open ADE with the config view as the design.

    This is much simpler than trying to use an external SPICE netlist; there are posts that describe how to do that, but why make it more complicated than it needs to be?

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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